Sarah Blair Cary
(1738-1799)
BIRTH
1738
PLACE
NAME
Sarah Blair
DEATH
February 28, 1799
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
John Blair Sr.
(1687-1771)
MOTHER
Mary Munro
(1708-c. 1768)
BROTHER
John Blair Jr.
(1732-1800)
SISTER
Mary Blair Braxton Burwell
(1734–1799)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Blair Cary (1738–1799) was John Blair and Mary Monro’s daughter and the first wife of Wilson Miles Cary. Married in 1759, she lived in the family world of Richneck, Ceelys and Carysbrook in Virginia. Their children included Wilson Cary and Elizabeth Blair Cary, who married Ferdinand Fairfax. Colonial Williamsburg’s Blair-house research supplies the family chronology. His legislative service does not establish an office held by Sarah.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Sarah Blair Cary’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sarah Blair Cary is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Blair Cary died on Feb 28, 1799. Sarah Blair Cary was John Blair and Mary Monro’s daughter and the first wife of Wilson Miles Cary. Married in 1759, she lived in the family world of Richneck, Ceelys and Carysbrook in Virginia. Their children included Wilson Cary and Elizabeth Blair Cary, who married Ferdinand Fairfax. Colonial Williamsburg’s Blair-house research supplies the family chronology. His legislative service does not establish an office held by Sarah. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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